Word: blew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blow, Blew, Blown...
...Subscriber Parsons $2. Extract from the clipping: "During the blow a man in Pensacola opened his bedroom window and in blew a Miami Herald, printed only two hours previously, giving an account of the storm."-ED. Dead Wrong...
...midnight rain came softly pattering like children's footsteps. The barometer was 28.84. At 1 a.m. the wind blew 65 miles an hour. The barometer was 28.00. At 5:40 a.m. a screaming, slashing demoniacal 130-mile gale raged wilfully, lustily, triumphantly. The barometer was 27.75 (lowest ever recorded in the U. S.). Pelicans, gulls, petrels, royal terns swept in helplessly, crazily, were dashed against walls into broken lumps. The waters of the ocean on one side and of the Bay of Biscayne on the other swept over Bayshore Drive, met. People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous...
Logic has supplied a plausible and widely believed explanation of what is supposed to have taken place: he declared his intention of breaking with her, and she attacked him with the razor. He strangled her, then blew his brains out from remorse...
...Legged Table," "The Rosebud Wall-Paper," "The Real Estate Agent's Tale." The title of the collection came, perhaps, out of Amy Lowell's love for a fresh breeze off the ocean, bringing rain to dry New England in hot summer. It might stand for herself, who blew with sharp zest through lives and times notoriously parched...